Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

If he smiled much more, the ends of his mouth might meet behind, and then I don't know what would happen to his head! I'm afraid it would come off!

I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!